CharToNum Depricated??

[Bob Sneidar]

Actually I think what I need to do is figure out what the original file encoding is, and use that when I write out the export file. 

Bob S


> On Sep 16, 2024, at 2:06 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
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> OK so I determined that the native export file from the Toshiba Address Book Export is putting some non-display (probably unicode) characters at the beginning of the file. They don’t appear in any text editor but they are there because when I do a char by char comparison, the very first char in the Toshiba Export file is a question mark. 
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> Is there any way to ignore that exterraneous data when reading the file? 
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> Bob S
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